The scene cued to the song is here.
So what bagpipe song is that that Tripper plays as the national anthem? I’ve seen one reference as Louden’s Bonnie Woods and Braes but I’ve listened to a few different versions on Youtube and that is not the right song. Can anyone identify it?
I think that’s Loudon’s Banks and Braes, the opening part. This link has a clip to it being used in Waterloo*, which sounds to me the same as the Meatballs clip.
Meatballs? How old is everyone here? Holy cow. Meatballs, seriously? Threads like this are why I love this place. Surely nobody under 40 remembers this movie.
I think I see it now. I think what was throwing me was the Meatballs version starts out a little slower, almost like a few warm up notes then the song.
That’s the “strike in” - you inflate the bag, and then squeeze hard and play a few notes to get the pressure right, then on to the tune (or “chune” as my piping instructor used to say).
A Canadian classic!
I like this bit from the Wikipedia article:
Harold Ramis said that Reitman did not know for certain whether Murray would be in the film until he showed up for the third day of filming.[3]
I remember being 40…
I actually know a bunch of kids that were in the movie as extras, it was shot at one of the jew-ish Toronto based camps.
It was only Jew-ish?
Yep, there are essentially two categories of Jewish camps - religious and non-religious.
The religious camps have exciting activities like Torah study and Hebrew lessons that take up half the day and then more typical camp activities.
The non-religious camps (like the one my wife and I attended) were 95% Jewish kids but were not kosher and the religious aspects were limited at most to a blessing before meals and lighting Shabbat candles on Friday nights.